Nuts, double post. Can I change this one to Muffin Man By Zappa then?

Might I suggest that you don’t go into your loft for the moment? On your current form there may be lions.

My comedy Lyriked-up B17 frame is possibly the most fun I’ve had on a bike since the Mini Burner I had when I was 5, and that’s praise indeed. It’s an absolute horror to climb on, though.

Obento, baldwin st, by the old fish market pub. the spider roll is awesome. close to thekla also.

on the return loop head to the pineapple then the qs, obviously.

One of the Turbo Island regulars in Bristol – 1 leg, wheelchair, bottle of ace: I’ve seen him doing a good 20 mph backwards down the middle of Stokes Croft. Dunno what his life story was but I can tell you he was a sad loss to the world of street luge.

Can they do something about those two bloody trees at the start of the final section, just before your gnar-core drops? I don’t want them gone, necessarily, just moved slightly further apart. Pies, you see.

Happy Birthday, by the way. Hope someone got you a razor, and possibly a haircut 😉

As dark as a double espresso, almost…

We crawl on our knees to our doom! Where are we sleeping tonight mother? On fathers grave?

I commend all those fans of Jazz Club to listen to Throbbing Gristles seminal classic “20 Jazz Funk Greats, by the way.

Ralph – trial and error for me, test rides aplenty.

That defy would look damn nice if you gave it a proper paint job.

Eventually, yes you probably will.

I replace my bars every few (5ish) years and/or after particularly exuberant crashes

And Take That was the fastest selling album 😉

Reach is more important than inseam, and more important than weight, spec or (gasp) colour.

Yep, really like having it, but i’ve got silly long travel on a hardtail. Never used it when I had the same forks on a bouncy bike.

Common problem, apparently. Mine pissed loads out, but TF fixed them up recently, no problems since. Apparently you can DIY it with a couple of o rings it or simply remove the Motion Control unit and send them that.

I’m cack handed and terrified of busting a fork that’s worth more than the rest of the bike put together, so sent them the whole shebang 😳

Anteaters. Trained motherfrikkin’ obsessive compulsive anteaters.

Bring.
It.
ON.

You’re still talking to yourself, and that video doesn’t go very far towards ameliorating my concerns vis a vis the reliability of my wasp. 3/10

Mine is stored up a tree in a hole in the ground which is only accessible at low tide and is protected at all times by an angry wasp and team of Chinese midget acrobats disguised as Gandalf, but beyond this I’ve not really put too much thought into the matter of security. Should I run a CRB check on the wasp?

Ummmmm .

Suck less at teh ridings? Do what 99.9% of teh shortarses do and put your sadle down on teh kgnharl? Ne fait pas le monkey up a stick?

Ta. I think it’s the various radar based predictions of developing fronts, the bottom line being the precipitation forecast and the upper showing pressure/temp/front changes. The convergence of the lines tomorrow suggests a front coming in and the black spike thereunder is the most loony prediction, the red line being an average.

Long range weather forecasts, obviously.

Isn’t it self explanatory?

GFS?

I reckon they’re looking at the 06 plot. The median precip peak has been drifting towards sunday all day. You’ll be fine, apart from al the riding round and round in bloody circles.

Norco.

Mine scares me.

Oh yes, our mud training went particularly well last week, three quarters of a lap in an hour. I think we can be confident of more silverware for the trophy cabinet. In fact I doubt there is any point anyone else turning up with lap times like that in the bag

Yep, that’s my sort of lap time and I won’t be turning up. Well, not to ‘race’ (or rolling roadblock, if you prefer) I will be along to provide cheery encouragement though, and to lie to riders about the rideability of corners on early laps if it’s raining.

I still maintain that supertacky minions both ends are the best all season option round here.

Co Durham?

If it’s in Swindon it’s probably been nicked somewhere down the line. And that includes the tree, which I personally reckon the council’s had away from Reading when they weren’t looking.

Nice use of a pie plate on the crossmax.

I’ve got a couple of sets of swampthings, to you very cheap, very reasonable. £50 an end…

What, a lemon entry?

In winter, allons

Have you seen the holes? There’s one that they have to put scaffolding over…

Sadly can’t make it, but build something that’ll make a singlespeedy luddlites life a misery by lap 10 in my name, would you? A line of horribly spaced square edged rocks, with a ‘stopper’ a couple of feet back so you can’t manual over them, for example 😀

Oh, and Paradiso. Dante starts well enough, but you just end up wanting to thump bloody Beatrice after a few pages of Purgatorio and by Paradiso she’s utterly unbearable.

I’m with Case. Gravity’s Rainbow? Postmodernism my arse. Lazy ugly bollocks. I believe my brother actually went so far as to nail his copy shut. Gharrrrstley.

Mr A – I clobbered my eastons on a tree the other day on the narrow traverse at the end of rocky horror/don’t look down, where you’re skirting the top of the quarry. I’m seriously considering cutting them down a bit, and possibly taking a change of shorts on the next ride.

I can’t believe i once rode that pissed.

Couple of flights of steps and a quick salmon run down a one way street should short the wheat from the chaff then

Oh yeah, nicolai helius CC. horrible. more roadie feeling arse up head down than my colnago. not right at all.

Shonky 2nd hand marin B17 frame from about 2004/5 built up with comedy freeride kit on it. So far it’s seen off a Mt Vision, a Dialled PA (richc’s now I believe?), a Norco 6 and an my old orange singlespeed. All bases covered, I reckon.

With the current set up it’s been compared to riding a cow, admittedly…

Mr Agreeable’s Cove. Forks too short, bars to narrow, shocking brakes and as for that colour…

MrsMith – Niiiice :thumb:

Custom job?

It’s in the process of choosing a new Pope.

Currently learning to play 5 string banjo, the redneck 303 :yokel:

I hope you wiped your shoes.

Concussion x5ish
Huge road rash including both palms of hands (3 hours with a brillo pad to clean that up, and bandages for 2 months)
I’ve seen me shinbone through a pedal gash (still not properly healed)
Couple of dislocated digits & toes
More cracked ribs, sprains & bruises than I care to count.

Being a bloody idiot though, I’ve only been to A+E twice from biking crashes. The pub has always been closer, the queue is usually shorter and if you have a good enough tall tale someone’ll always stand you a pint.

I can’t tell if you used an odd lens or not. It could be the top tube & seatpin, it could be a 20 degree lens, it could be both. I don’t like it, it gives me a headache. I’m off to look at a brick for a bit and re-gather a sense of perspective.

Sentimental fondness for having the grip come off in your hand when it’s raining and the consequential crash?

“Indurain” in the basque country of all things 😀 I was marginally skinnier, but no more healthy/fast/capable.

The crowd was very, very drunk.

I’ve always cheered on the euskatel euskaidi boys ever since.